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Sapiens Unveils Core Upgrade to its General Insurance/P&C Suite

In the past several months there have been a series of reports and articles written about how technology is rapidly disrupting all aspects of the way in which insurance is provided, claims are handled and customer are engaged. While all of the things going on with the disruptions caused by the advent of the “connected car” are grabbing the headlines, there is hardly an insurance line-of-business that is going untouched. And, as the postings have pointed out, and industry observers have recommended, the insurance sector has been a laggard when it comes to technology adoption, and those who do not change how they do business are going to suffer the consequences.

With this as context, it is noteworthy that insurance industry software solutions provider Sapiens International Corporation has announced the general availability of Sapiens IDIT Software Suite 12.1 to its customers and business partners worldwide.

Sapiens, which is expanding its focus to the broader financial services industy, offers end-to-end solutions to the global general insurance, property and casualty, life, pension and annuities, reinsurance and retirement markets, as well as business decision management software. The 30 year-old company has more than 130 financial services customers and its team of approximately 1,000 professionals operates through fully-owned subsidiaries in North America, the United Kingdom, EMEA and Asia Pacific.

At the core of the insurance business

As the company says, the Sapiens IDIT Core 12.1 is “designed to increase the productivity of general/property and casualty (P&C) ergonomic user interface and intuitive user experience that will help insurers achieve greater efficiency across their organizations.”

The Sapiens IDIT Core 12.1, which is available for immediate delivery, has some interesting new functionality and enhancements. These include:

The company is also citing technical improvements which include: an enterprise JBOSS rollout, side-by-side with latest versions of hardware, software and databases; multi-thread performance enhancements; and Rule Analyzer, a tracking system designed to help the product configuration manager isolate and identify rule setup issues, saving time and effort.

"We are confident that our continuous investment in the Sapiens IDIT Software Suite demonstrates our undisputed commitment to innovation. This commitment, along with our unparalleled insurance domain expertise, increases the business value we deliver to our customers and partners," said Gary Sherne, president of Sapiens' P&C/General Insurance and Reinsurance division.

The upgrades are going to be welcomed by Sapiens’ customers as they represent business process automation (BPA) capabilities that will make workflows easier and faster. Given the increasingly fickle nature of customers in all of the hotly contested insurance businesses, BPA solutions are going to get serious evaluations in 2015.